Samantha Foster, 17, a freshman pole-vaulter on the San Diego Mesa College track team, said of the elderly athlete: “I love when he says he needs more practice. It’s cool to watch him being able to still do this at 100.”

“He’s very, very steady on his feet and his posture’s very erect…He doesn’t have as much bone and muscle degeneration as others in his age group. You can see he has really maintained his muscles,” said Sarah Provencher, a nursing student.

Fellow competitors were requesting selfies with Pellmann. Robert Silva, among the competitors, said: “You see people that are 100 run, but to see someone that age pole-vault or long jump, that’s another galaxy.”

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